2020 We Are One Film Festival | World Premiere
Wake Up: Stories from the Frontlines of Suicide Prevention After losing a close friend to suicide, a group of college students from the University of Missouri was determined to enact positive change. They quickly formed a nonprofit, Wake Up, premised on spreading awareness: their educational initiatives were designed to encourage a massive cultural shift away from […]
Casting Call for Background Actors to Work From Home
Casting directors are now casting actors, models, and talent to work on scenes filming from your home in Atlanta, Georgia. Producers are seeking the following types: Caribbean Latino man born around 1935 – 1940 give or take but that specifically has 3 children, 2 boys and a girl or at least some older photos that […]
Academy Award Nominee Alec Baldwin To Star in and Produce Joel Souza’s RUST
ighland Film Group announced today that Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe Award winner Alec Baldwin (Mission: Impossible franchise, “30 Rock”) will star in Rust, which he will also produce under his El Dorado Pictures banner alongside Anjul Nigam and executive producer Matthew Helderman. Joel Souza (Crown Vic) will write and direct the action/western based on a story […]
Black Bear Pictures Options Naoise Dolan’s EXCITING TIMES, ahead of US Book Release
In a highly competitive situation, Black Bear Pictures has optioned the rights to Naoise Dolan’s debut novel Exciting Times ahead of its U.S. release on June 2, 2020. Following a hugely successful release in the UK and Ireland in April, where it debuted on the Sunday Times Best-Sellers List, the novel has received rave reviews and blanket praise […]
Saban Films Acquires Wedding Comedy SISTER OF THE GROOM Starring Alicia Silverstone
Saban Films announces that they have acquired North American rights to the Alicia Silverstone (Book Club) wedding comedy Sister of the Groom from Premiere Entertainment Group (PEG), a Los Angeles-based sales, production and financing company. Written and directed by Amy Miller Gross (Accommodations), the film also co-stars Tom Everett Scott (truTV’s I’m Sorry), Jake Hoffman (The Irishman) and […]
“It’s a Wonderful Plight – A Hip Hop Musical” selected in San Francisco Black Film Festival
Hip-Hop Musical “It’s a Wonderful Plight” manages to attack the serious issues of racism and systemic oppression in a light-hearted way. It can be simply explained as a Hip, Woke, creative Christmas Carol. This is really a cinematic masterpiece and we can’t Wait for you all to see it! Check out the trailer for the […]
Love, Lust, and Social Distance | Morgan Krantz’s Short “Squeegee”
A high-powered female executive has an erotic rendezvous with a high-rise window-washer on opposite sides of her office window. Funny and poignant, “Squeegee” is an apt portrait of intimacy in the time of social distancing.
Abel Ferrara’s TOMMASO / Opening virtually June 5
Abel Ferrara’s first dramatic feature since 2014’s Pasolini reteams the filmmaker and his frequent lead Willem Dafoe, who delivers a career-best performance as the title character, an older American expat living in Rome with his young wife and their daughter. Disoriented by his past misgivings and subsequent, unexpected blows to his self-esteem, Tommaso wades through this late […]
Academy Award-winner Graham Moore’s MIND FALL Marks Second Project from Studio 8 and Solstice Studios Partnership
Solstice Studios has acquired the futuristic thriller Mind Fall, written by Academy Award-winner Graham Moore (The Imitation Game) with Cedric Jimenez (The Connection) signed on to direct. Mind Fall, which will be produced by Studio 8’s Jeff Robinov, Guy Danella and John Graham, marks the second project to come from Studio 8 and Solstice Studios’ strategic partnership, whose most recent […]
Edgar Wright’s LAST NIGHT IN SOHO Releases in 2021
Focus Features will now release Edgar Wright’s LAST NIGHT IN SOHO in theaters on Friday, April 23, 2021 domesticallyin North America. See Edgar Wright’s tweet about the release date change. Wright tweeted, “Haunted by someone else’s past, but we’ll see you in the future… It’s true, #LastNightInSoho is not quite finished yet due to Covid 19. But, I’m excited for you all to experience […]